Nook Color Battery Life

Your Nook Color battery life is probably important to you for many reasons. An ereader’s primary attraction is its ability to function wirelessly on battery power. Therefore, a device with a short battery life is fairly useless and potentially a waste of money. Owners of the Nook have an additional reason for wanting their battery to last a long time, these ereaders run on rechargeable batteries which cannot be replaced by their owners.Most Nooks come with warranties so that you can avoid the inconvenience of having to submit the device for a replacement. Either way, replacing the battery is not for the do-it-yourself types. The Nook Color BatteryThe Nook Color has a rechargeable battery, like its predecessor. It can function for as much as eight hours after a full recharge. However,...

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The Release of a "Slew" of E-books

A small team at Penguin India's New Delhi office is agog with excitement as the publishing powerhouse - with 250 titles every year - waits for its E-moment - launch of the first set of 150ebooks slated for this month. Not just Penguin, other Indian book publishers are taking the risk to launch e-books to try out the potential of this virgin market at a local level. Top publishing houses like Harper Collins and Amar Chitra Katha are all expected to release their first set of e-books within the next six months. "We are aggressively converting books into e-books. At this point in time, there is not a big market for e-books...

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First-Time Author Mistakes

Prior to being published, first time authors frequently make mistakes that damage or even preclude their book's marketability. Commonly, these errors include Poorly designed or stock cover art Unedited or unprofessionally edited text Under funding of or lack of a book marketing budget Inadequate online presence Absence of book platform and clear audience for the material Book Covers make or break your ability to obtain reviews and readers. You can judge a book by its cover. As James Cox, Editor of Midwest Book Review puts it, "Stack #3 are those titles that are immediately rejected — not for their subject matter; not for being written by...

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Should You Make Your EBook Free?

One author's take on making a title available for download at the price of FREE!With permission from Stephanie HaddadWhy Free Was For Me - Stephanie HaddadIf you’ve been following my announcement over the past month, you might have caught on to the fact that I’ve made my novel, A Previous Engagement, free as an ebook. (Paperbacks aren’t free, sorry…LOL). You can download it just about anywhere: Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, and iTunes. It was a risky move, just giving away my work, but it was one I felt I needed to make.See, to be totally honest, before I made that novel free to download, sales weren’t going so great...

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